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Also gave the X5 a pretty damn nice review also (4.7 on 5). And this was not just first impressions, it was after using it as his regular box for about a week.

The few bad reviews are from a handful of users who came here asking for help, but refused to answer the questions asked of them. They assume they know everything and refuse to answer simple questions. If the unit turns out to be defective (and every company has a few), Buzz is pretty damn good at replacing them. Also, one of the biggest issue with the U5, is people with previous buzzTV boxes, have a tendency of trying the lazy option when swapping boxes, and tend to use the power supply of their previous box. The power supply fits (unfortunately), and will often even power up the box. But the other boxes (except for the 4900) all use a 5V power supply. The 4900 and U5 use a 12V power supply and hence will be very unstable with a 5V power supply. Also, some people want the boxes so badly, and even though they are not for sale in their country, they will go through freight forwarders or other logistics companies to get their box to their country. If something goes wrong however, don't expect Buzz to pick up the warranty shipping to a country they technically do not ship to (even though they have in some cases). And because of this, they are pretty bitter. And I don't have issues with 4900 and the numbering. However during one of the last updates, for some reason the default sort order did change on both my 4900 boxes. But put it back to my preference and it was fine. Not saying buzz is perfect. Every company has a few issues with any product. But they are typically quite good at fixing issues quickly and taking care of their customers. But some people feel so entitled and do nothing but curse, don't cooperate for trying to identify the issue, and are so negative. No matter what you do some people are just miserable by nature.

Guess you must be, considering the first reply from DU clearly stated to turn group channel numbering ON. This would get you what you are looking for, but you have just decided to keep replying, but not once answer to say if you DO or DO NOT have it turned on ? If you have it ON and still can't get it to work, we can move to the next check. And clearly from the screenshots above, it is NOT a widespread problem, since it works fine for most of us. Grumpy or illiterate.. It has to be one or the other.

Here is my x5 Terrible that buzz hasn't fixed a problem that doesn't exist Go into setting and turn group channel numbering on

Thank you Allaboutbuzz! I did what you suggested and it is now working perfectly! Thank you again!

people experiencing user errors always blame the product

Actually troypoint gave the 4900 an excellent review.

not bad all was done in under 15 minutesnow fingers are crossed it turns on tomorrow...lol

Post firmware and buzz sw

There is no discussion of services allowed here Please refresh yourself on the rules

you keep hijacking threads and don't provide any details it's no wonder you can't get help

Buzz boxes can install APK easily (unless the APK you want specifically required root). Put them on a USB key, launch the app Installer and select the apk of your choice. Or like in my case, I have an "apk install" directory on my NAS, I use Solid Explorer, and go directly to the NAS share and click the apks one after the other to install them (after giving solid explorer permission to install apps). Makes reinstalling any box, a simple task. And not much that I know of that requires root today for use on a media box.

and don't be surprised when jbana doesn't reply back

can't fix stoopid...lol

that was the first reply...lol I guess it was invisible oh and even on home screen

finally you make sense...lol using 4900 what number do they start at? even an idiot can clearly see it

I reached out to them the problem is not fixed on 2 4900 boxes and my U5 box I cannot get the organize favorites to work will not start with 1,2,3 and so on, even on the start off page where your favorites are it has the numbers of whatever folder it was in when I ck for up dates every box says you have the latest update. I am sorry to say that when in different chat rooms and I here people talk how much there customer service has gone down and why people won't support them anymore there is a reason so I guess all of us grumpy idiots are all wrong and you are the one that's right, when I read that Troy had enough with buzz he must be one of us grumpy idiots also.

The firmware issue which was unfortunately stuck with no updates was addressed pretty quickly (it can happen to anyone, and they did own up to it). 3 options were provided: If you have a small SD card (even a small 8GB was plenty - probably even smaller would suffice), you can download the required files, make yourself a microSD card and a procedure was provided on how to boot from the SD card and take the update to get past this. Other option was that Buzz would send you a microSD card to do the update if you really did not have and SD card, and not willing to buy $5(max) card... And in some rare cases where people could not follow instructions and bricked their boxes, Buzz did provide replacements. I had come into possession of a large number of 8GB microSD cards, and even though I do not work for Buzz, I personally even offered many users to create a card and ship it to them. For many of my colleagues, I had them bring their boxes into the office and I did the update for them. It was a simple process. Every company has had glitches and strange events. Hell I have boxes from all sorts, from generic Android boxes, Mii Boxes, Nvidia and even BeeLink. They have ALL had their issues. BeeLink even abandoned support for one of their boxes less than 6 months after release, when they could not fix some video issues when they first ventured into the S912 CPU. What distinguishes them is how they recover from it and provide the support. Buzz has not abandoned anyone. For every 100 happy customers, you will always have at least 1 grumpy idiot who doesn't even try to help themselves and all they do is complain. And they tend to be very vocal. So I take many of these complaints with a grain of salt. Those who are willing to debug and answer questions to determine the source of the problem, often get the help they are looking for and then some.

and here's why you get negativity people don't fucking reply back after being given answers to their issue just more user error

I've done recording from 2 different services at same time while watching livetv in the past I'm positive I posted about it here on this site

my 4900 got a firmware upate on 20230923 my 4000 and 4500 didn't

In server settings for M3U, there are 2 spots for M3U URLS, one of them is labelled EPG This is where you add the EPG URL.

try xc api instead

Contact your service

Now you can see why it's important to post firmware info.

posting latest updates is useless what are the firmware/software versions? what video player are you using? what stream format? post anything that can help you get help

You were told how to get iptv version It's not 11 Clarify your statement "iptv does not work"

You say "Samsung SSD hardrive is properly installed and formatted". Stop making assumptions. Just provide info. Obviously something is wrong. When you say properly installed and formatted ? Formatted how ? On what device ? Using what file system type (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT) ? Have you tested the hard drive on a PC, to make sure you can properly write and read info onto it ? I have had a few SSD (Samsung, Micron, etc..) all fail at one point. I Samsung 850 Pro recently failed on my 4900 and it would suddenly eject for no reason. Replaced it with an Intel SSD I had lying around and solved the problem. And yes the SSD was getting flaky since I tried using it on a PC, and all seemed fine, and then at random the PC would crash and reboot. So quick glance it seemed fine, but it really wasn't. What player are you using for LiveTV ? If you swap to the other player, do your streams also work fine ?

you just want to play 20 questions don't you?

That is NOT what I asked. And just because Spectrum provided them, it does not make them good either. Even if they were WiFi 7, they can still be junk. My ISP provides me with a Hitron CODA-4680 cable modem/router. It's a piece of junk. I have put it in Bridged mode, and have my own pfsense firewall appliance as a router, and 3 enterprise class access points and a controller. What they gave me is now used as a dumb modem and all the rest of the equipment is unrelated to them. Test with Cable.. And for WiFi ensure you have 2 separate SSID (1 for 2.4Ghz and 1 for 5Ghz). The joining of both bands on same SSID and allowing cheap crappy routers to decide which you connect to is a bad choice, and one that leads to connection problems. If the router does NOT allow the separation of the 2 bands, then that is the first sign, that it is a cheap router. If you don't want to try anything proposed, or answer relevant questions, or you know better on how to fix the problem, then you are on your own.

proton is free only limit is one device per account

I don't use a VPN with my service and have no issues. Some ISP will throttle, agreed, but you don't always "need" a VPN. And like DU mentioned, some services do not even allow a VPN. I do have one service that I know with one specific ISP is needs a VPN. But with other ISP, it is not an issue.

you shouldn't post live links and some services don't allow a vpn

same version for my samsung phone,android tv and fire tv

I just installed the latest version 4.10.23, and installation works without an issue. However, peacock has decided to limit the app to a very small number of "compatible" boxes. So when it starts it just give the dumb message that "Sorry, Peacock is unavailable on this device. Please see we-are-idiots.com for supported devices". The issue is peacock's narrow minded corporate thinking. Unlike netflix which will work, with some restrictions, if not on an "approved" box, this app just doesn't work at all.

You still cant

Really? Because there is an option to unlock bootloader in the developer menu...

So you post another live link I have no clue what you are talking about

You have been asked questions and you don't provide answers Then you complain about no support? You should not post live links

just start recording on one server then switch servers and recording will still continue I remember doing 3 recordings,a download and watching livetv from 2 servers all recordings and download completed

little while ago my 4900 started to lock up, won't power off, if power off won't turn on. I had to reboot to make it work then problem again both wired and wireless. thats where I found it was my cec settings on 4900 was causing issue. then I turn off cec settings and ever since its been good. maybe you can give a shot to cec and leave it off on box and see if that helps.

I used to have this issue quite a while ago on one of my 2 xrs4900 boxes, and they were both at same firmware level. I had tried everything and could not figure it out. Even tried toggling the WiFi and BT (which had helped previously - maybe try that) and could not figure it out. And it was working fine for months before that. Then suddenly one day it just started to work (not due to an update). I gave no clue what fixed it, but have not seen it since. I was waiting for the right time to do a factory reset (as next resort) but didn't have to do it finally.

Try downloading and installing the latest disney apk and see if that works for you. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/disney/disney-android-tv/disney-android-tv-2-25-2-rc3-release/disney-android-tv-2-25-2-rc3-android-apk-download/

To test/format SSD you are best to connect it directly to a PC (either directly internally, or via a USB->SATA adapter) and then format it while ensuring the filesystem type is set to exFAT. If you format the SSD on the U5 it will be formatted to FAT32 I believe (standard for Android and external filesystems), which will have the limitation of 4GB max single filesize limit, which is not an issue for short recordings, but it can fail for long recordings, or large VOD downloads (typically the 4k ones). You can also temporarily test by removing the SSD, and using a USB key (connected to a blue USB 3 port). Just make sure to set the destination in the settings to go to the USB key. When you see "media format not supported", is that when just streaming live TV or VOD ? Or when trying to playback something you recorded ? As requested earlier, WHAT video player do you have selected in the menu->settings->configuration screen at the top left for the LiveTV and VOD options ? Keep in mind that IF the stream is interrupted for any reason (bad Wifi, ISP glitch, etc..) the recording will fail, and will NOT resume. So are you hardwired (cable) to your internet or dependant on a WiFi connection ? If it is an option, try for a while to run an ethernet cable to the box. There are quite a few variables, and you need to eliminate them one by one. Does your IPTV service allow for more than one simultaneous connections ? If not, are you possibly watching on another device when the unit tries to record ? PS: You should never hijack someone elses thread. Your topic has NOTHING to do with the original topic of this thread (which was over a month old). You should start your own topic thread.

Got it all working . I was making it far to difficult. The X5 does download to internal storage so once network shares are turned on you can simply do what you will with the downloads using plain old Windows File Explorer. I have been copying and pasting the files into my Plex Server library. Next I may just add the X5 share Movie download directory as a Plex Library and see how that works instead of copy and paste. Thank You for the help!

I select internal drive then go to library but I use es file explorer

if it does it on tivimate then it's a service issue thanx for playing 20 questions come again

Why are you posting in an old thread? Also you never brought up playback issue before

Emporium, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! This one worked for me !! https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/peacock-tv-llc/peacock-tv-android-tv/peacock-tv-android-tv-1-11-6-release/peacock-tv-stream-tv-movies-android-tv-1-11-6-android-apk-download/ I not have Peacock installed and working perfect on my Buzztv U5 ! Thank you so much, you never cease to amaze me!

Complain to peacock